Shadi Sadr

Shadi Sadr (Persian: شادی صدر‎‎; born 1974) is an Iranian lawyer, Human Rights activist, essayist, journalist, and a women's and LGBT rights advocate. Shadi Sadr is a Founder and Executive Director of Justice for Iran (JFI). She has published and lectured worldwide. She has also served as a judge in the 1965 International Tribunal.

Sadr majored in law and holds a Master's Degree in international law from Tehran University (1999). Sadr was the Director of Raahi, a legal advice center for women, shut down by the Islamic Republic authorities, as well as Zanan-e Iran, a website dedicated to women's rights activists. While in Iran, she represented several women sentenced to death and as a result of her extensive activities, was imprisoned in Iran on various occasions prior to her departure to Germany and U.K. in 2009.

Sadr is an expert on women's legal rights in Iran. She was director of Raahi, a now-closed legal advice center for women, and founded the website Women in Iran to showcase women's rights efforts in Iran.

As a practicing lawyer, she has successfully defended several women activists and journalists in court, who had been sentenced to execution.

She is one of the Iranians who have campaigned to eradicate the practice of capital punishment by stoning, particularly of women, in a campaign known as End Stoning Forever. This campaign is one of several launched by Women's Field, a women's rights group of which Sadr is a member.

Following the 2003 Bam earthquake, she helped organize a relief effort to collect food and supplies for women and children in the area of Bam.

Sadr is the defense lawyer of Shiva Nazar Ahari, a human rights defender and member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, who was arrested on 14 June 2009.

Shadi Sadr was one of 33 women arrested in March 2007 after gathering outside a Tehran courtroom to protest peacefully against the trial of five women accused of “propaganda against the system”, “acting against national security” and “participating in an illegal demonstration” in connection with a 12 June 2006 demonstration in support of women's rights. Sadr was held for fifteen days before being freed on bail together with Mahbubeh Abbasgholizadeh.

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